Posted on 03/04/2022 6:17:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GRAND LAKE, Colorado (AP) — With a backdrop of mountain vistas and a rink of natural ice, the annual ice hockey tournament at Grand Lake offers a picturesque snapshot of Colorado’s beauty. What’s not apparent is the problem brewing under players’ skates.
This year’s tournament was held a month later than normal, with thin ice forcing organizers to postpone the event originally scheduled for the third weekend of January.
“We had slushy conditions and less than six inches of ice. There just was no way it could safely be held,” said Steve Kudron, mayor of Grand Lake.
That is a reality that many communities that live near lakes, which freeze and provide myriad activities during winter months, are increasingly confronting. According to a major UN report on climate released on Monday, as the planet warms, the amount of ice, and amount of time it keeps a body of water solid, are diminishing. Those changes are forcing communities to adapt and curtail some winter activities while also raising the spectre of long-term environmental and health issues.
David Gochis, a hydrometeorologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, says Colorado’s trend of very hot summers and last year’s unseasonably warm fall combined to raise the lake’s water temperature, contributing to a delayed and gradual freeze.
That meant the hockey tournament in Grand Lake had to be pushed back, already a sign of community adaptation.
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“less ice covering North American lakes”
Probably more to do with Winter nearly over.
Good thing we have indoor rinks and refrigeration. Wouldn’t want to hurt no kangaroos.
Less ice more time to fish. Sounds like a win.
Crock of 🐃💩
It’s called ‘ spring’
and it happens every year.
“Warms”. At the rate of 0.01ºC/year, over the last several decades.
Sure , I am all in for spending trillions of dollars to make sure people have thick ice for skating. What could possibly be a more important use of that money?
Pretty soon Niagara falls will stop running.......................
Life thrives under warmer conditions.
Nothing hibernates or stops growing in warmth. The trees don’t lose their leaves in warm seasons. Crops dont grow in cold/frozen seasons.
Cold kills far more than heat does.
Wonder why they wont celebrate having to burn less coal and wood and natural gas for warmth. Wheres the positivity?
Oh its the perpetually p1ssed off leftards, yes, thats right.
Dredge the oceans to make them deeper!
Exactly. Spring is only about 2 1/2 weeks away.
Anyone that had really been to Grand Lake would have noticed the 200,000 acres of forest that had burnt recently.
Evaporating water will form clouds and block the sun then cooling , this planet knows what’s it doing to bad the global warming nuts are clueless and are only after MONEY
NIAGARA FALLS!....Slowly I turned....step....by...step.....inch....by.....inch.....
Bedwetting liberals can never be happy. It’s in their manifest.
Yeah. It’s called *weather*.
One year does not make climate.
Less ice? Less ice?
You should see the bruises on my legs and dupa from where I slipped and fell on the sidewalk ice. It hurts to fall, the ice speeds up the fall.
We have 10” of ice on Medicine Lake, in MN.
We had 24” of ice in northern Wisconsin, just like every year.
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